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If God required people to fly to the moon in order to be saved, then unless He specially enabled them to do so, no one could be saved If He required people to solve the Binomial Theorum (no idea what that is) in order to be saved, then only special, super-intelligent people could be saved. But...

I have been a church leader for 20-odd years and a member of Gideons Int. for 30 years, and I never heard anyone say that. However, IF people are preaching a 'gospel' that tells people that they need to look inside themselves to see if they are elect, then that is just despicable. The Bible...

So you, as moderator, staff member (owner?) of the BB should be at pains not to misrepresent Calvinism on this forum. If only!

Yes, that is quite right. People have the choice to believe or not, but unless God opens their hearts to believe they will freely exercise their choice not to believe (John 5:40; 6:44; Romans 3:11; 1 Cor. 2:14). When God opens their hearts to do so, they freely believe. Read Titus 2:11-12...

How can you ask me that after what I posted? Of course I do. I don't think you have the faintest idea of what Calvinism is. The Bible says that whoever will may come. That is what Calvinists believe. But the Bible also says that men and women will always use their free will not to come...

I am not sure that's the case, but if it is, it shouldn't be.

Every Calvinist (though not every Hyper-Calvinist) believes in free will. It is there in the WCF and the 1689 Confession. Of Free Will — The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. I expect it is there in most, if not all, the other major Reformed Confessions. So Mr Friel is perfectly within his...

That depends on how one interprets 'by nature, children of wrath.' Isaiah 12:1. 'On that day you will say: O LORD, I will praise you; though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me."'

Quite right. I think it may be helpful to think of the prodigal son, although it is dangerous to press the analogy too far. The younger son was 'dead' (Luke 15:32) - presumably in trespasses and sins - but his father still loved him for he was constantly looking out for him (v.20). But he was...

I thnk you'll find that there are. I tried to explain so simply that even a half-wit could understand, but obviously not. Sorry!

Hi @Brightfame52, Ephesians is written to those who are 'saints,' holy and 'faithful' ones (1:1). Paul tells them that they and he were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (v.4). The word translated 'chosen' is 'eklego' from which comes 'ekloge' which is translated 'election' in...

Elsewhere as well. Ephesians 2:1-3.

This is correct. God's wrath is His righteous anger, and it is satisfied by the propitiation wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. God's love is shown by the fact that is was He who set Christ forth as a propitiation by His blood so that He might be just and the justifier of the one...

It's never caused me the slightest problem, much less a mutter.

Perhaps Exodus 19:5-6 will be helpful. Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' If one compares that with 1 Peter...

"I have six honest serving men; They taught me all I knew. Their names are What? and Why? and Where? And When? and How? and Who?" Rudyard Kipling

From C.H. Spurgeon: Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the doctrines of grace in a single instant. Born, as all of us are by nature, an Arminian, I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the grace of God. When I was coming to Christ...

Thanks for the post. I have very little time to reply as I am in the midst of sermon preparation. I take it that you are considering the word translated 'pleased, ''will' and 'plan.' I know no more Hebrew than you do; the following comes from a word study dictionary. The Hebrew word in...

I think this 'free grace theology' is an imposter. It bears no resemblance to what I understand as free grace. It resembles 'Sandemanianism,' an error that was common in Scotland in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here's a link. What was Sandemanianism? | GotQuestions.org The Lord Jesus...

Isaiah 53:10. 'Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise [or 'crush'] Him; He has put Him to grief.' These words are all of one syllable each and very easy to understand. If anyone's theology leads him to deny that it pleased the Father to bruise the Son and put Him to grief, perhaps that person...